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One-click copyright assignments?
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Clément Pit-Claudel |
Subject: |
One-click copyright assignments? |
Date: |
Sun, 12 Mar 2017 07:08:53 -0400 |
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Hey emacs-devel,
Why is the copyright assignment process for GNU software more complex than
other similar ones ? I've contributed to various pieces of free software in
the past, and in most cases (except for Apache) the assignment process was
little more than a click of a button, possibly followed by an email. For
Emacs, on the other hand, one needs to send an email to emacs-devel to get an
off-list copy of a text-based form, then send the completed form to
address@hidden, then wait for a PDF (which mentions a monetary transaction of
$1 that never actually happens), then electronically sign the form using PGP
(possibly with an entirely new PGP key), then email it back and wait for
confirmation.
Is there anything specific to Emacs that requires the process to be this
complicated? For example, could the entire process not be automated? Ideally
new contributors would fill a web form on gnu.org/emacs, sign with their mouse
at the bottom of that form, and confirm their email adress by clicking a link
in an email.
The existing process could remain in place for e.g. company-wide assignments,
but for the common case of applying a patch to an ELPA package, wouldn't this
make things much nicer? If this can't be done, then could we at least automate
the part that generates the PDF form, and the part that checks the signature,
so as to eliminate the copyright assignment delay?
Thanks!
Clément.
- One-click copyright assignments?,
Clément Pit-Claudel <=
Re: One-click copyright assignments?, Richard Stallman, 2017/03/13